Breaking Through Comfort Zones

We all have comfort zones—those familiar routines and habits that keep us feeling safe. While they provide security, they can also become invisible walls that limit personal growth. The problem? Staying in a comfort zone too long leads to stagnation. We stop learning, avoid challenges, and miss out on new opportunities. If you’ve ever felt […]

On January 22nd of this year, John Daniel Davidson, Senior Editor at The Federalist, delivered a talk on the topic of January 6th – the so-called insurrection that the media and the Left are still very much worked up about. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who wasn’t even inside the main Capital building where the breach took […]

Next month it will be my pleasure to deliver a Fireside Chat on The Book of Mormon and what it means to modern culture. I have been making a study of The Book of Mormon a matter of intense study for the last 40 years. I’ve lost count of how many times I have read […]

Several years ago I got hooked on the wisdom of a writer named Neil Postman. He was a college professor at New York University. A dear friend of mine, Ross Baron, who is brilliant in his own right, had alerted me to the value of Postman’s writings. That same summer, I read seven of Postman’s […]

Building Your Power of Expression Reciprocity, n. Pronunciation: ˌresəˈpräsədē Meaning: Reciprocity is the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit. Tit for tat. I scratch your back, you scratch mine. But it’s not a word that exclusively deals with things of a positive benefit. Think an eye for an eye. It could also […]

Uncommon Sense is back with a powerful issue! Let’s see what we have in store for you this time. . . The Self-Development column shares a story of a recent negotiation I was involved with. See if you can discern the key lessons in that story. The Elephant in the Room column takes a fascinating […]

I was enrolled to begin my masters degree at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) in June 1996. Although I was very excited about the prospects of studying with the legendary Peter Drucker, I have to admit I was quite nervous. I was nervous because during my undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University, I […]

People who know me know that I do not belong to a political party. I am not a Democrat. And I am not a Republican. My view of political parties is that while they can, in theory, do some good, they inevitably do more harm than good. Political parties go through different phases at different […]

I received a phone call last week. A meeting planner I have known for some time informed me that their closing keynote speaker who was slated to deliver a speech in about a week had been involved in a terrible car accident and had received injuries that would prevent him from delivering the speech. He […]

There are two voices within each of us. One of the voices beckons us towards stillness, calm, rest, repose, quietude. This voice accepts current reality. This voice is content. The other voice lights a fire within and spurs us on to reject current circumstances and to strive for something more. This voice represents ill-content. The […]